Rehabilitation Technician

Job summary

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join a well-established, experienced and passionate team, committed to making a difference in people's lives. The Community Neuro Rehabilitation Team (CNRT) is a multidisciplinary team providing services across the county of Shropshire, including Telford & Wrekin, for people with acquired brain injuries and progressive neurological conditions. The team comprises of registered Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Psychology staff in addition to our Support Workers.

The successful applicant will demonstrate excellent communication skills, an ability to work flexibly within the team and be an open and positive individual who wishes to strive to see the best for both our patients and staff.

We pride ourselves in having a strong identity for our AHPs reflected by our structure which includes a Chief AHP, the creation of our AHP strategy, and our professional forums which include a monthly support worker session.

We expect the very best from our staff - in return we can offer you the opportunity to work alongside experts to help you further develop your clinical and leadership skills, contributions towards CPD including external opportunities as service delivery allows, and an exceptionally rewarding job opportunity in one of the most beautiful yet dynamic parts of the UK.

Main duties of the job

You will be involved in providing and evaluating goal focused rehabilitation and reablement programs for patients with a range of acquired neurological conditions.

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team in providing therapeutic goal-based programmes to service users both in their homes and at SCHT bases. This will involve both individual treatment sessions and group activities.

You will undertake delegated tasks, which, for example may include practice of functional activities, transfer and mobility practice, cognitive and perceptual work and provision of equipment for patient use.

You will use effective communication tools, verbal and non-verbal, to communicate treatment programmes to patients who may have barriers to understanding or communicating e.g. deaf, blind, dysphasic or who do not have English as their first language.

You may be required to deliver and fit equipment in patient's home as directed by a qualified member of the team.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Employer details

Employer name

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Address

Shropshire Rehab Centre

Lancaster Road

Shrewsbury

SY1 3NJ

Employer's website

https://www.shropscommunityhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Address

Shropshire Rehab Centre

Lancaster Road

Shrewsbury

SY1 3NJ

Employer's website

https://www.shropscommunityhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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